Setting up the school room

Good morning.  Yesterday was very productive.  I finally tackled the school room.  I took everything off the shelves, finished putting the desks together, and organized some of the supplies.  I'm not done yet, but if we decided to start school next week, we'd be okay.

I started working in this room on Saturday, but didn't get anywhere near finished.  So I snapped a picture after I moved everything that needed to go into storage away.  Yesterday, this is what I started with.

I dreaded the closet the most!

I already had the books sorted by type, subject, and each kid has their own cubby.

All week the kids have been obsessed with working in their workbooks.  I bought some workbooks to give as a refresher.  They're rocking them.

On their new chore charts that they made, "mommy's helper" chore was sort all the construction paper.  I wasn't looking forward to this one so when Xander asked...I delivered the supplies.

Xander loved that it continued in a pattern so it was easy for him.

I'm still not done, but nearly.  I spent 6 hours yesterday and emptied out an extra large garbage bag worth of junk out of here.  So freeing!

The white shelving will hold our STEM activities, DVDs, and learning electronics.  Yes, I still need to hang the TV.  Waiting for the hubs to get home so he can help.  It's heavy!

I completely emptied out the shelves.  Laid out all of the baskets and organized the games up top.  I still need to label the baskets so everything is easy to find.

Almost done with this shelf unit.  Right now I have all the books laying down, but I think I'm going to try to stand them up.

I'm excited to fill up the desktop carousel full of new supplies!  I'm dreading going through the tub in the back full of used supplies.  A lot of broken crayons and dried out markers.

I also spend a few hours putting together a spreadsheet that I can fill out to have an organized school year.  I found the state standards for each grade, so I will need to bounce our plan off of those to make sure we cover everything that is required.  Sounds like fun, right?!

This will be my year in advance.  Then I'll make a monthly view with learning objectives.  Finally I'll make weekly lesson plans detailing what work will be completed that week.  It sounds like a lot, but, I'm all for being organized to make this school year a success.

As you can see, I still have work to do.  But, I'm so excited with the progress.  Today I'll work on the spreadsheets some more, and maybe take a break from organizing.

Have a great day!